Do tractors come with brake lights for highway travel?

[mbu]

Dave,

I checked the trailer connector and my M760HDC12 does indeed provide power for trailer brake lights. The fuse box also shows a fuse for the brake stop light, and the brake lights have two filaments with all wires connected. In addition, both brake pedals have a switch.

Therefore, somewhere between the fuse box and the tail lights there must be a disconnect since everything visible appears to be wired.

Apparently the U.S. models don't require brake lights but Kubota does provide some means of using them - I guess I just need to find out where the connection is if I want the lights.

So, you were correct in your assumptions!

Thank you for your time and help regarding my question!

Mike

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

That is real interesting to hear!
One thing that I find with newer tractors, that they seem to be evolving faster than the paperwork for them.
Even digital copies of manuals can be misleading and misinforming.
I know Dave is on top of his game on the workings of Kubota, and normally I don't give bad info.

If everything is wired then it shouldn't be to hard to find out where it's not getting power from.

Let us know what you find, as it seams we don't have all the details.

 

[Dave_eng]

Dave,

I checked the trailer connector and my M760HDC12 does indeed provide power for trailer brake lights. The fuse box also shows a fuse for the brake stop light, and the brake lights have two filaments with all wires connected. In addition, both brake pedals have a switch.

Therefore, somewhere between the fuse box and the tail lights there must be a disconnect since everything visible appears to be wired.

Apparently the U.S. models don't require brake lights but Kubota does provide some means of using them - I guess I just need to find out where the connection is if I want the lights.

So, you were correct in your assumptions!

Thank you for your time and help regarding my question!

Mike[/QUOTE

Mike

Me and the dog went for a walk tonight to the tractor shed. I had my trusty test light, the pin out diagram for the trailer socket and a flashlight.

We got the tractor running so we had lights, I locked down the two brake pedals as you should do when you park it, and then went out to experience the brake light terminal on the trailer socket lighting up my test light.

No power!! There was power for the tail lights and if I had checked likely the signal lights but no brake lights... disappointed.

I will take off the lens for the tail light to see what bulb is in it but only when it is warm as the last time I changed a bulb, the lens was hard to get back into place.

I dearly would love to get my hands on a M7060 WSM to see if a tractor like yours shows a wire connected to the second filament terminal on the tail light socket. Remember Wolfman quietly highlighting in yellow the absence of a wire in the wiring diagram I posted for you even though the socket showed both filaments!

Today, Monday Feb 20 is called Family Day in Ontario Canada so everyone is closed. When I am feeling OK I will take a trip to my friendly Kubota dealer to see what he can possibly give me on a USB stick.

If you bought your tractor new from a dealer, you should press them to give you the operators manual, the FEL operators manual, the Tractor WSM and the FEL WSM in pdf format.

Having the manuals in pdf format is so much better than on paper. You can search for terms not in the index, you can zoom into individual components on the wiring diagram and see what is inside.

Even if the dealer charged you $100 it would be a good deal. They have electronic manuals for a staggering number of models and if you have a USB stick with you when you ask you might get lucky.

Dave M7040

p.s. the dog loves playing fetch in the dark so he had a good time going to the tractor shed

 

[Tx Jim]

IMHO a tractor having functioning brake lights will be just as vulnerable to being in an automobile collision as a tractor without brake lights because most auto drivers pay very little attention to farm equipment flashing lights. I've been passed on the left hand side on farm to market highway while attempting to turn left in my driveway on numerous occasions while driving my tractor with rd baler with LH turn signal flashing. To make matters worse my driveway entrance on this highway is on a curve that's marked with double yellow stripes IE NO PASSING ZONE. YMMV

 

[D2Cat]

Tx Jim, I think you are absolutely correct about folks paying little attention to farm equipment with flashing lights.

I have experienced similar situations while moving a round baler, load of round bales, etc.

I do think it is good/better to have all the lights available working so in the case of a collision you have done everything possible to avoid it! Especially if it gets to a court!

 

[Dave_eng]

IMHO a tractor having functioning brake lights will be just as vulnerable to being in an automobile collision as a tractor without brake lights because most auto drivers pay very little attention to farm equipment flashing lights. I've been passed on the left hand side on farm to market highway while attempting to turn left in my driveway on numerous occasions while driving my tractor with rd baler with LH turn signal flashing. To make matters worse my driveway entrance on this highway is on a curve that's marked with double yellow stripes IE NO PASSING ZONE. YMMV

Jim,
On my road, the people who pay attention to a tractor's signals and even brake lights are the other farmers which thankfully out number the others.
What scares me on road trips is how close people will drive to the corner of my bucket when coming towards me at 100 kph.

It would not be good for me but the bucket slicing through their car would be deadly for certain.

Dave M7040